The numbers have been a lie from the start, so your question doesn't have a real answer other than--IT'S COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA MEANT TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE.
Very true, the COVID deaths were always people who died with COVID, not from it, unless they were in a nursing home. But the rates of death are so low now, since nearly all the sickly have been killed off, that they can't even inflate them to a level that would panic in any rational person.